The Dean’s List

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Teen accounts will be unavailable from midnight to 6 a.m. Messaging and push alerts face extra limits overnight and during school hours. In addition, cosmetic filters are banned for teen users. Parents should take advantage of those productive pauses and trade their phones with their children for a good book. Perhaps it’s time to reclaim...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – A federal judge rules that Oklahoma cannot reject a Jewish charter school’s application solely because of its religious character. The preliminary injunction allows Ben Gamla’s application to proceed without approving the school, reinforcing First Amendment religious freedom protections and challenging religious exclusions in the state’s publicly funded chart...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Allegations that a teacher singles out and disparages a conservative eighth grader at a nationally ranked Florida school raise questions about parental rights, classroom debate, and political bias. True educational excellence requires teachers to protect students’ dignity and cultivate independent thought across differences in belief...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – 1619 Project writer learns the hard way the failing lesson of Socialism. She offered up her daughter’s education to better the experience of Black students in city schools. “So you had money to send me to one of the best schools, and you chose not to?” Najya yelled during one of their fights, according to the essay. “Because other kids are...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – School personnel began referring to the girl by a male name and using male pronouns without the parents’ knowledge. When the parents discovered what was happening, they strongly objected to what was transpiring behind their back. A school counselor reported the parents to the MA Department of Children and Families...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The judge said the policy failed to provide discernible criteria for what programs would be considered DEI initiatives and likely to lose funding. She further chastised the department for failing to consider the impact of canceling the grants on those who relied upon the funding. “The Directive does not acknowledge the fact that thousands of teachers...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – What the study can predict about our society is that we will have fewer and fewer deep thinkers among us. A decline in reading will inevitably produce a decline in deep, complex thinking. As the capacity for deep thought fades, public discourse will grow more emotional, irrational, and tribal. We’re already witnessing these results take place on...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – BMCC is a taxpayer-financed institution. They’re forcing taxpayers to pay to promote Marxism, whose goal is the violent overthrow of the US government. It’s a threat to our society. The invitation, enticing college students to attend, plays upon the fears of young people by painting a “brutish and bleak” future if we continue to operate our nation under the.....

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – If Socialists keep getting elected to positions of power in our government, our Constitution will become a relic. Ours is the longest-serving Constitution in the history of governments. Two hundred thirty-nine years is impressive for one governing document, especially when the average lifespan of global constitutions is only 17 years...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – California students earn soaring GPAs while math and reading proficiency decline. Teachers face pressure to inflate grades, leaving graduates with a false sense of achievement. Behind the straight A’s, concerns grow over academic honesty, weakened standards, and whether schools adequately prepare students for college demands...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The current Constitutional structure of our three branches of government does not benefit socialists because they believe the Supreme Court exists to do the will of the people rather than uphold the will of the Constitution by protecting inalienable rights. Turley points out that socialist thinking runs contrary to our nation’s founding principles...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Initial findings show that students from Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Canada, and the UK continue to outperform U.S. public school students in reading, science, and math. Compared with the 2022 results, U.S. scores in science remained the same, but for math and reading it’s a different story...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The honeymoon is over, and NYC residents are coming to the conclusion that Communism doesn’t pay . . . unless you’re at the top of the food chain. Two lawsuits have been filed against New York City by the Multicultural Business Coalition (MBC). This group represents roughly 1,000 minority-owned bodegas, delis, and supermarkets. Their complaint argues...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The NEA and AFT wield an exorbitant amount of power within and over government policy, and that power should be put in check. On August 21, 2026, the U.S. Department of Education initiated proceedings to withdraw federal recognition from that body which accredits most American law schools...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The practice of equitable grading will only further reinforce an entitlement mentality with zero responsibility or self-government being taught. Equitable grading includes ineffective practices such as unlimited retakes, no late penalties, no zeros, no homework, and no required participation. These grading policies make no sense to...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Nebraska law requires all children to be enrolled in a “public, private, denominational or parochial school,” or to homeschool them. If parents fail to comply, the punishment is a Class III misdemeanor, including up to three months in jail and a $500 fine. Families are urging a Nebraska court to consider if the government-school monopoly is an unconstitutiona...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The NEA provides resources for teaching 9/11 calling the US “cruel and inhumane” and blaming the 9/11 attacks on America’s support for the Jewish state. Not only do the lessons not provide the radical Jihadist motivations of the attacks, but they also appear to equivocate on whether al-Qaeda mastermind Osama Bin Laden was behind the attacks...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The Democrats continue to openly embrace Socialism while maintaining their ability to remain tone deaf. While the Democratic Party at the national level is full on embracing Socialism, state Democratic leaders are embracing Socialist policies, beginning with Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, who is maintaining sole control of...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Booksellers have recently discovered that AI has breached the gates. The revelation that millions of print books are being scanned to train artificial intelligence models and then destroyed should raise concern. “What I’ve been hearing is alarming. People are right to raise a red flag about it,” Susan Benne, executive director of the Antiquarian...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Detroit public schools offer gift cards worth up to $1,000 to reward student attendance as chronic absenteeism remains a serious problem. Critics argue that simply paying students to appear in class does little to improve engagement, academic performance, or meaningful learning outcomes for struggling students...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – What’s worse, renaming a Great Lake or removing the word “mother,” and replacing it with “postpartum individual”? Democrats whined and complained profusely after Trump made the announcement that he was changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. Bill Maher exposed them for who they are by sarcastically saying they...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The fact that his letter had to be sent speaks to the horrible state of affairs in which our pubic education system finds itself. The impetus behind the letter was due to reports surfacing about schools withholding critical information from parents under the guise of “confidential medical information.” Other reports noted that teachers were...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – AFT president Randi Weingarten calls ICE actions illegal and immoral while they claim she is a criminal illegal alien supporter. Weingarten is urging her members to boycott Target, deeming the company unethical, because it refuses to publicly denounce ICE. As usual, Weingarten finds herself on the wrong side of the argument...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Have we made it a normal practice for grown adults to carry around stuffed animals for comfort? If students are not given the opportunity to be courageous in the face of struggles, progress will be nonexistent in their lives. They will expect everything to be handed to them, and be sorely disappointed when they come to realize we live in...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Dissenting Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson said that it is clear that the states “face a sufficiently concrete and imminent injury to satisfy Article III” of the U.S. Constitution. The states should not be required to wait to “bring their serious challenges to the Executive Order.”